Vehicle-tire.



M. SIMON.

VEHICLE TIREa APPLICATION FILED FEB. n. ma. RENEWED MAR. 26. 1915. 3 1,57,

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VEHICLE TIRE. APPLICATION men ran. n. 1913. RENEWED MAR. 26, 1915. r1,137,357.. Patented Apr. 27,1915;

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MORECZ SIMON, OF EAST CHICAGO, INDIANA.

r VEHICLE-TIRE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

\ Application filed February 11, 1913, Serial No. 747,722. Renewed March26, 1915. Serial No. 17,278.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Monncz SIMON, a citizen of Hungary, residing at EastChicago, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Tires, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in vehicle tires and its objectis to produce a durable and smooth riding tire particularly adapted foruse upon automobiles and its construction involves the provision of asolid rubber tire disposed .upon the rim of the vehicle wheel andprovided with cavities wherein one end 'of a plurality of spring staysare disposed and suitably spaced apart and arranged alternately withsaid stays, sockets are formed adapted to retain one termination ofspiral springs, said stays and springs having their opposite endsdisposed, respectively, in cavities and sockets of similar formationformed in an auxiliary rim carried by the said tire.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to behereinafter fully .described in the following specification, pointed outin the claims and illus-.

trated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of. saidspecification and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion ofmy improved vehicle tire in position upon the rim of a vehicle. Fig. 2is a section taken therethrough. Fig. 3 is a plan of the auxiliary rimtaken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4. is a plan of the tire taken on line 44. of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is asection taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a section taken on line'66 of F ig. 2. Fig. 7 is a plan of a casting employed.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

1 is the rim of a vehicle wheel to which my rubber tire 2 is secured.The tire is provided at spaced intervals upon its periphery with aplurality of protuberances 3 and sockets 4 alternately arranged. Theseveral protuberances are of hollow forma tion and provided with openingapertures 5 through which the metal bushing 6 is introduced which isformed of a broken annular portion and with integral oppositely disposedlugs 7. The body portion of a spring stay 8 is adapted to pass throughand partially reside in the aperture 5 of the protuberance 3 and in thebroken portion of the annular part 6 of the bushing, and the aperturedannular terminations of said spring stays reside within the annularportions 6 of the bushings upon screw pins 9 spring stay terminationsare pierced by About therim 1 of the wheel screw pins 9. and partiallyabout the tire 2 adjacent the protuberances 3 castings 11 are disposedwhose extremities are bifurcated to inclose said protuberances and givestrength and rigidityto the construction.

Within the sockets 4: one end of strong spiral springs 12 is disposedwhich rests terminally upon metallic heads 13, the opposite ends of saidsprings being. disposed in similar sockets 4, formed integral with theauxiliary rim 10, upon heads 13. It

will be noticed that the spring stays are curved to afford an addeddegree of flexibility.

When this wheel is in use the load will be carried by the shockabsorbing mediums, that is, by the stays 8 and springs 12 as the wheelrotates. The auxiliary rim 10 coming in contact with the supportingvsurface will compress the flexible mediums toward the tire 2 and bythese mediums any shock or sudden impact due to rough roads will betaken up. I

What is claimed is 1. The combination with a vehicle wheel rim of aflexible tire formed with a plurality of integral hollow protuberancesand sockets alternately arranged upon its periphery, an auxiliaryflexible rim formed with similar and oppositely disposed integral'hollowprotuberances and sockets alternately arranged upon its periphery, ametal bushrim of a flexible tire formed with a plurality of integralhollow protuberances and sockets alternately arranged upon itsperlphery, metal castings encompassin said hollow protuberances, anauxiliary exible 'im formed withsimilar and oppositely disposed integralhollow protuberances and tire and rim and springs connecting theoppositely disposed sockets of said tire and In testimony that I claimthe foregoing as my'own I have hereto affixed my signa- 15 I WitnessesLOUIS Dnixoos, JOSEPH SoMLYo.

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